Improvement in medical compounds for cure of hog cholera



PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES L. JONES, OF PEDLER TOWNSHIP, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR CURE OF HOG CHOLERA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,523, dated December5, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. J ONES, of Pedler township, in the countyof Amherst and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Compound for Cure of Hog Cholera and I do hereby declarethat the following is a fulland exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide a compound which shall be,when properly administered, a perfect cure for the disease among swinecommonly known as hog cholera i and consists in compounding in aboutequal proportions the ingredients hereinafter set forth.

I am aware that many compounds, &c., have been patented and otherwisepublished claiming to cure this disease, but none to my knowledge (and Iam familiar with breeding and raising of swine) have ever been proven tobe a certain cure.

To enable others skilled to make and use my improved hog-choleramedicine, I will proceed to describe the ingredients, how compounded andadministered.

I take dittany, (leaf or root,) iron-weed, (leaf or root,) wild or otherginger, blue cohosh, copperas, sulphur, andcharcoal, of equal parts, andhaving first reduced them each as near as possible to a powder, mix themwell together, and

administer in the food of the swine, giving as a dose a tablespoonfulevery other day, or, in extreme cases, two tablespoonfuls every day.

I have found after several years, from experience, that a cure iscertain in every case, and that this compound not only effects apermanent cure, but will, in every instance, so improve the condition ofthe hog that it will fatten doubly as fast on a given quantity of food.Of course I do not wish to limit myself to the exact proportions setforth, but desire to cover, broadly, the idea of compounding togetherfor the first time the ingredients heretofore mentioned to produce thedesired result.

Having described the nature, advantages, &c., of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The compound for cure of hog cholera, composed of the ingredients and inabout the proportions hereinbefore set forth.

Witness my hand and seal to the foregoing specification this 31st day ofMay, 1871.

CHAS. L. JONES. [L. s.]

